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Finally, the full recording with Bonus cut songs, full original orchestrations and a huge 62-page booklet with lyrics and more.
One Touch of Venus is a musical with music written by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash, and book by S. J. Perelman and Nash, based on the novella The Tinted Venus by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, and very loosely spoofing the Pygmalion myth. The show satirizes contemporary American suburban values, artistic fads and romantic and sexual mores. Weill had been in America for eight years by the time he wrote this musical, and his music, though retaining his early haunting power, had evolved into a very different Broadway style!
CAST
Venus: Melissa Errico
Whitelaw Savory: Ron Raines
Molly Grant: Victoria Clark
Rodney Hatch: Brent Barrett
Mrs. Kramer: Judy Kaye
Gloria Kramer: Lauren Worsham
Taxi Black: Jacob Smith
Stanley: Michael “Tuba” McKinsey
Mrs. Moats: Karen Ziemba
Attendant: Matt Bogart
Chorus
National Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by John Owen Edwards and Jim Holmes*
Orchestrations by Kurt Weill
CD ONE: 40 minutes 54 seconds
CD TWO: 62 minutes 30 seconds
CD ONE
1.OVERTURE
National Symphony Orchestra
2.NEW ART IS TRUE ART
Savory, Attendant and Students
3.ONE TOUCH OF VENUS
Molly and Girls
4.VENUS AWAKENING
Rodney and Venus
5.Scene One: CURTAIN MUSIC
Molly, Stanley and Savory
6.HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU
Rodney and Gloria
7.VENUS ENTRANCE 1
Rodney and Venus
8.MRS. MOATS FALLS
Mrs. Moats, Rodney and Venus
9.I’M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF
Venus
10.FORTY MINUTES FOR LUNCH – BALLET
National Symphony Orchestra
11.INCIDENTAL
National Symphony Orchestra
12.WEST WIND
Savory and Venus
13.WAY OUT WEST IN JERSEY
Rodney, Mrs. Kramer, Gloria
14.WAY OUT WEST IN JERSEY encore
Rodney, Mrs. Kramer, Gloria
15.THAT’S HOW I AM SICK OF LOVE
Rodney and Gloria
16.ONE TOUCH OF VENUS reprise
chorus
17.VENUS ENTRANCE 2
Savory and Venus
18.FOOLISH HEART
Venus and Savory
19.FOOLISH HEART DANCE
National Symphony Orchestra
20.THE TROUBLE WITH WOMEN
Taxi, Savory, Stanley and Rodney
21.GLORIA DISAPPEARS
Venus and Gloria
22.SPEAK LOW
Venus and Rodney
23.ARTIST’S BALL
National Symphony Orchestra
24.DOCTOR CRIPPEN
Savory, Mrs. Kramer, Police Lieutenant, Rodney and Venus
CD TWO
1.ENTR’ACTE
National Symphony Orchestra
2.VERY, VERY, VERY
Molly
3.VERY, VERY, VERY reprise
Molly
4.SPEAK LOW reprise
Rodney and Venus
5.CATCH HATCH
Savory, Molly, Taxi, Stanley, Mrs. Kramer and Anatolians
6.THAT’S HIM
Venus
7.WOODEN WEDDING
Rodney and Venus
8.VENUS IN OZONE HEIGHTS – BALLET
Venus and Rodney
9.BACCANALE
Chorus
10.STATUE RETURNS
Savory, Rodney and Girl
11.FINALETTO
Savory, Rodney and Girl
12.VIVE LA DIFFERENCE
Victoria Clark, Ron Raines and Melissa Errico
13.WHO AM I?
Ron Raines
14.LOVE IN A MIST
Melissa Errico
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